â€˜Single Atom in an Ion Trapâ€™, by David Nadlinger, from the University of Oxford, shows the atom held by the fields emanating from the metal electrodes surrounding it. The distance between the small needle tips is about two millimetres.

When illuminated by a laser of the right blue-violet colour the atom absorbs and re-emits light particles sufficiently quickly for an ordinary camera to capture it in a long exposure photograph. The winning picture was taken through a window of the ultra-high vacuum chamber that houses the ion trap.

Laser-cooled atomic ions provide a pristine platform for exploring and harnessing the unique properties of quantum physics. They can serve as extremely accurate clocks and sensors or, as explored by the UK Networked Quantum Information Technologies Hub, as building blocks for future quantum computers, which could tackle problems that stymie even todayâ€™s largest supercomputers.

The image, came first in the Equipment & Facilities category, as well as winning overall against many other stunning pictures, featuring research in action, in the EPSRCs competition â€“ now in its fifth year.

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Sun, 11 Mar 2018 13:21:51 +0000http://viralhappenings.wordpress.com/?p=2630God & Man

Date the girl who gets excited over the little things. The girl who is thrilled when you come home with her favorite candy bar or when you play her favorite song in your car, because it means you were thinking of her. It means she was in the front of your mind. It means she matters to you.

She isn’t the kind of girl who is impressed by money or material items. She couldn’t care less about the price tag on your presents. She doesn’t expect you to buy her a brand new car or designer bag or diamond jewelry.

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Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:29:47 +0000http://viralhappenings.wordpress.com/?p=2626For two centuries, it has been a totem of America’s gun culture — a name emblazoned on frontier flintlocks and U.S. Army .45s.

But on Monday Remington Outdoor Co., which traces its history back to 1816, said it would file for bankruptcy protection, succumbing to a slump in business worsened by, of all things, a president who has steadfastly supported Americans’ right to bear arms.

The bankruptcy is a blow to the private-equity mogul Stephen Feinberg, who has been a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump. Feinberg’s firm, Cerberus Capital Management, acquired Remington in 2007 and subsequently saddled it with almost $1 billion in debt. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing will let Remington stay in business while it works out a plan to turn around the company and pay its creditors.

After his big win, Philadelphia’s Malcolm Jenkins was asked if he plans on visiting the White House — an invite traditionally offered to the players of every Super Bowl-winning team.

Jenkins is part of the Players Coalition — an effort by NFL athletes to take action on systemic issues and injustices facing Americans of color. With a White House occupant who’s railed against athletes protesting police brutality and urged fans to boycott the NFL, is Jenkins on board visiting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

Malcolm Jenkins. Photo by Elsa/Getty Images.

“No, I personally do not anticipate [going to the White House],” Jenkins answered on CNN’s New Day on Feb. 5, which you can watch below.

“What message would you like to send to the president?” CNN’s John Berman pressed the 30-year-old Eagles safety. “I don’t have a message for the president,” Jenkins responded.

He continued (emphasis added):

“My message has been clear all year. I’m about creating positive change in the communities that I come from — whether it be Philadelphia, New Jersey, Ohio, Louisiana … I want to see changes in our criminal justice system, I want to see us pushing for economic and educational advancement in communities of color and low-income communities, and I want to see our relationships between our communities and our law enforcement be advanced. That’s what myself and my peers have been pushing for for the last two years, and that’s what I’ll continue to do.”

]]>viralhappeningsThis New Mom’s Brave Viral Photos Show What Happens to Your Baby Bump in the Weeks AFTER You Give Birthhttps://viralhappenings.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/this-new-moms-brave-viral-photos-show-what-happens-to-your-baby-bump-in-the-weeks-after-you-give-birth/
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 06:30:31 +0000http://viralhappenings.wordpress.com/?p=2620nce a baby arrives, it’s easy to forget all about the human woman’s body it’s just left. But new mothers’ bodies are dealing with massive changes during this period. And while movies and tv shows often skip right from the delivery room to an actress-thin new mom on the playground, some women have decided to start talking about this.

One new mom from Australia recently went viral on Instagram, sharing a very real photo of her postpartum body.

Usually those bumps are covered up under increasingly fashionable maternity clothes. Pregnant women are often described as “glowing”, or being ethereal, out-of-this-world beings who are above all our petty non-Earth mother needs as their bodies work to create actual human life.

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viralhappeningsMexico Has an Olympic Ski Team and Their Outfits are Awesomehttps://viralhappenings.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/mexico-has-an-olympic-ski-team-and-their-outfits-are-awesome/
Sun, 18 Feb 2018 08:31:48 +0000http://viralhappenings.wordpress.com/?p=2618Mexico has sent two Alpine skiers to the Winter Games in PyeongChang and their outfits, a tribute to the ‘Day of the Dead’, are pretty sweet. They were designed by Prince Hubertus von Hohenlohe, 59, who designed them and has represented Mexico in six Winter Games.

Prince you say? That’s right. According to the Washington Post, his family reigned over a principality in what is now the northeastern of Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg in Germany until the early 19th century.

Although he spends most of his time in Europe, he is eligible to compete for Mexico because he was born there. At the time his father, Prince Alfonso, was running a Volkswagen plant in Mexico and he spent the first four years of his life there.

Check out some of Hubertus’ outfits from previous Winter Olympics below.

Adam Savage is clearly overjoyed about his new bag. I met up with the gear-obsessed designer, former Mythbusters host, and Tested.com editor in chief at his workshop in San Francisco to see his latest creation. He's designed his first carryall utility bag and launched a new brand, Savage Industries, to market it. With the same childlike glee he exudes on camera, Savage flipped the thing around on the workbench, opening and closing it, zipping and unzipping, as he pointed out all the features.

Yes, the bag is white. It only comes in white, at least for now.

It's constructed almost entirely out of upcycled cloth from boat sails, so each bag has some unique quirks, and every specimen comes off the production line with a broken-in look. The handles are held together by magnets instead of snaps or velcro, which, if you've fiddled with those types of closures on your own bag, is a welcome innovation. You just bring the handles near one another and they jump together with a satisfying clonk. Also clever: The straps are stiff enough that the clasped handle stays propped upright like a little pup tent frame. Unzip and pry open the bag, and it holds its shape in that configuration too, thanks to a pair of spring steel inserts that run around the lip and keep the mouth agape like the jaw of a whale shark.

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Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:44:07 +0000http://viralhappenings.wordpress.com/?p=2614

If there’s anything that can wake you up from a sound sleep, it’s the smell of your favorite food.

And while pizza tops the favorite foods list for many humans, it’s also on the top of the list for this Instagram famous doggo. This Frenchie has over 27,000 followers and every single one of them probably died after watching the adorable video of him sleeping his afternoon away only to wake up to the cheesy goodness of a slice of pizza.

The footage begins with Bluenjy catching some zzz’s, cuddled up with a pizza slice nearly as big as he is.